Tag Archive for "criminalization"

Posts Tagged criminalization

By Jess Fournier • 5 years ago

Sex Workers Know What Will Keep Them Safe. It’s Time We Started Listening.

“Even symbolic victories can have real victims.” – SB & Anna Bongiovanni

By Verónica Bayetti Flores • 8 years ago

New survey uncovers the experiences of LGBTQ prisoners

A groundbreaking new report by Black & Pink, a network of LGBTQ prisoners and allies working to abolish the prison industrial complex, gives us stark new data on the incarceration of LGBTQ people.

By Mahroh Jahangiri • 8 years ago

NYC becomes one more city criminalizing Muslim youth and communities

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio flipped his finger at the ACLU, and more than 20 other human rights, civil liberties, and feminist organizations yesterday when he announced at the United Nations that New York City will join a global network of cities instituting race and religion-based surveillance under the banner of “Countering Violent Extremism.” This is terrifying.

By Katie Halper • 8 years ago

Melissa Gira Grant on Amnesty International’s vote to decriminalize sex work

The Human Rights NGO Amnesty International cast a historic vote to decriminalize sex work on Tuesday. I spoke to Melissa Gira Grant, author of the book Playing the Whore, about what this really means and the connection between Black Lives Matter and sex work.

By Verónica Bayetti Flores • 8 years ago

Stay in your lane: We don’t need rich white actresses’ comments on sex work

A group of rich and famous white actress/feminists who have probably never in their life traded sex or experienced criminalization have added their rich and famous names onto a letter condemning a proposal from Amnesty International to adopt a position to support the decriminalization of sex work.

By Verónica Bayetti Flores • 9 years ago

When the marginalized are safe, we’re all safer

Ed. note: This post is cross-published from Ravishly, where it is part of a conversation series on police violence against women of color.

The last year has seen an uprising in the resistance to police violence the likes of which we haven’t seen since the murder of Amadou Diallo in 1999.

Ed. note: This post is cross-published from Ravishly, where it is part of a conversation series on police violence against women of color.

The last year has seen an uprising in the resistance to police violence the ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

New report shows New York prisons are still illegally shackling pregnant inmates

In 2009, New York banned the shackling of pregnant inmates during labor. But, according to a new report from the Correctional Association of New York’s Women in Prison Project, prisons in the state haven’t stopped the degrading and dangerous practice.

By Katie Halper • 9 years ago

Infographic of the Day: The incarceration of domestic abuse survivors

Marissa Alexander should never have been convicted for shooting at the ceiling to scare off her abusive husband. On Tuesday, Alexander was “allowed” to fill the rest of her sentence at home, under house arrest. Sadly, the incarceration of women like Alexander is an epidemic.